This morning Emily MacKenzie visited P1, P1/2 and P2. We had a wonderful time listening to her stories and learning how to draw her characters. We learned about her inspiration behind some of the characters and the journey she went on to become an author and illustrator. We definitely have some budding illustrators in the making here at Tollcross! We will be ordering several copies of her books over the next few weeks for pupils to borrow and share with you at home, we hope you enjoy the stories as much as we do! Thanks to the First Minister’s Reading Challenge- Inspiring Classrooms project for the funding to allow this to happen.

This is our plan for this Wednesday for National Numeracy Day. All parents are very welcome to pop in from 9 – 9:30 to see Number of the Day and our Big Brain Stretch Challenges. 🧠💪

Please remember to join us for a family learning event to celebrate National Numeracy Day on 16/5/18 from 9.00 to 9.30. Come long and try some of the number puzzles created by our learners. Younger siblings, grannies and grandads are welcome too.

Thank you to our wonderful Parent Council for organising the International Fiesta. What a wonderful way to celebrate the diversity of our school community. Thank you to all the staff who came along to help and support. So many talented performers 😊

We have been watching the eggs in the incubator and we saw three chicks hatch this afternoon. They are now in a soft bed of sawdust with some food and water. We hope that more chicks will hatch tomorrow 🐣

We would like to invite our parents and carers for a cup of tea and a chat in the school lunch hall on Wednesday afternoons from 2.45 to 3.20.

We hope this will be an opportunity for parents and carers to meet, chat and get to know each other. Mrs Robertson and Ms Brand will be there and we hope you will join us. Tea and chat will run every Wednesday afternoon from Wednesday 16th May until Wednesday 20th June.

Hope to see you there.

Ms Brand ☕️

P1, P1/2 and P2 are studying life cycles. Today we had a special delivery of an incubator and eggs. We will be able to watch the chicks hatch and grow.  This is an exciting opportunity for everyone to observe life cycles in action. Can’t wait to see the chicks 🐣